“I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.” ― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

The Eyes of the Dragon was rejected by some Stephen King fans who believed it was a children's book. This belief spawned from the fact that King originally wrote the novel for his children.Another reason for rejection of The Eyes of the Dragon was the fact that it was fantasy, with little to no elements of horror. This drove Stephen King to write Misery as a metaphor for the fact that he was chained to writing horror fiction.